“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
-Victor Hugo
Category Archives: Quotes to Ponder
seeing
God walks among the pots and pipkins.
-St. Teresa of Avila
unqualified
‘In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there’s no danger that we will confuse God’s work with our own, or God’s glory with our own.’
-Madeleine L’Engle
we must help each other remember…
“In one of his dialogues, Plato talks of all learning as remembering. The chief job of the teacher is to help us to remember all that we gave forgotten. This fits in well with Jung’s concept of racial memory, his belief that when we are enabled to dip into the intuitive, subconscious self, we remember more than we know.
One of the great sorrows which came to human beings when Adam and Eve left the Garden was the loss of memory,
memory of all that God’s children are meant to be.”
-Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections of Faith and Art
bound to self
IF
the praise of man elates me and his blame depresses me;
if I cannot rest under misunderstanding without defending myself;
if I love to be loved more than to love,
to be served more than to serve,
then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
-Amy Carmichael, If
the beauty of a set table
“There are few things I find more rewarding than feeding people and giving them what I know they will like, and it’s impossible to determine who gets more pleasure or blessing from it-the recipient or the giver.”
-St. Irene
faith in the present moment
“But, like liturgy, the work of cleaning draws much of its meaning and value from repetition, from the fact that it is never completed, but only set aside until the next day. Both liturgy and what is euphemistically termed “domestic” work also have an intense relations with the present moment, a kind of faith in the present that fosters hope and makes life seem possible in the day-to-day.”
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“It is not in romance but routine that the possibilities for transformation are made manifest.”
-Kathleen Norris, The Quotidian Mysteries
motto for life work
‘Lead in good deeds.
Reverse the perverse.’
-Charles Clayton
resurrection people
‘The intermediate hope, the things that happen in the present time to implement Easter and anticipate the final day-are always surprising because, left to ourselves, we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there’s nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present… is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day.”
-N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope
idols
“An idol is behind our loftiest dreams, our scariest nightmares and our most unyielding emotions.”
-Tim Keller
peacocks for pilgrims 